Britney Spears’ memoir The Woman In Me has bought 1.1 million copies within the United States alone by way of its first week.
“I poured my coronary heart and soul into my memoir, and I’m grateful to my followers and readers around the globe for his or her unwavering assist,” Spears stated in a assertion launched Wednesday by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.
The gross sales figures embody pre-orders, print gross sales, ebooks and audiobooks. The Woman In Me, launched Oct 24, has been praised by critics as a compelling account of her rise to world fame and her ongoing struggles, together with the conservatorship that for years granted her father management of a lot of her life and her revelation that she had an abortion whereas courting Justin Timberlake greater than 20 years in the past.
On the day of publication, Spears posted on Instagram that her guide had grow to be “the very best promoting celeb memoir in historical past.” It is just not, up to now, even the very best promoting memoir of 2023.
The Woman In Me, for which she did little publicity past Instagram, was the highest seller of final week. But Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, which got here out in January, bought 1.6 million US copies in its first week.
Spears’ memoir helped give a sturdy increase to streams and gross sales throughout her music catalogue, in keeping with Luminate, a music and leisure analytics firm. In one day final week, from Monday to Tuesday, Spears’ catalogue jumped 18.2% in on-demand streams, and 36.8% in album gross sales. The numbers continued to climb over the next days. According to Luminate, her US streams elevated 24% over the earlier week – from 16 million to 19.8 million; her album gross sales had been up 61.4% and digital gross sales 49%.
The audio version of The Woman In Me, learn by Oscar-nominated actor Michelle Williams, seems a key issue within the guide’s preliminary reputation. Williams’ studying of The Woman In Me has been extremely acclaimed, and in keeping with Gallery, is the quickest promoting audio release within the firm’s historical past. The writer didn’t instantly announce a particular audio gross sales determine.
According to Circana, which tracks round 85% of the print market, The Woman In Me bought just underneath 418,000 copies, far beneath first week Circana numbers for former President Barack Obama’s A Promised Land and former first girl Michelle Obama’s Becoming amongst different memoirs.
No nonfiction release approaches the size of J.Ok. Rowling’s last Harry Potter guide, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, which got here out in 2007 and bought greater than 8 tens of millions copies in its first 24 hours. – AP
